Photo Record
Images

Metadata
Title |
Truman and Post Master During Whistle Stop at Burlingame Southern Pacific Depot, October 1948 |
Object Name |
Negative |
Description |
Truman and Post Master During Whistle Stop at Burlingame Southern Pacific Depot, October 1948. Black and white negative of President Harry S. Truman (right) and Burlingame Post Master John Broderick (left) onboard the presidential train, Ferdinand Magellan, during the president's 1948 whistle-stop campaign at the Burlingame Southern Pacific Depot. The Presidential Seal appears on the podium. The train Ferdinald Magellan was an armored Pullman train car originally used by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for his whistle-stop tours. On the roof of the train are three loudspeakers pointing in three different directions. Part of a series of 9. |
Date |
October 1948 |
Photographer |
Pearl, Norton |
Studio |
Norton Pearl Photography |
Processing Method |
Black and White |
Catalog Number |
2015.001.00183.9 |
Collection |
Archival Collection |
Place |
Burlingame, CA |
Notes |
"Named after the Portuguese explorer, the Ferdinand Magellan (also known as U.S. Car. No. 1) is a former Pullman Company observation car which served as Presidential Rail Car, U.S. Number 1 from 1943 until 1958. The current owner Gold Coast Railroad Museum in Miami-Dade County, Florida, acquired it in 1959. The Ferdinand Magellan was designated a National Historic Landmark by the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service on February 4, 1985." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan_(railcar)] "A whistle stop or whistle-stop tour is a style of political campaigning where the politician makes a series of brief appearances or speeches at a number of small towns over a short period of time. Originally, whistle-stop appearances were made from the open platform of an observation car or a private railroad car." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistle_stop_train_tour] |
People |
Broderick, John Truman, Harry S. |
Search Terms |
Burlingame Burlingame Railroad Station Presidents Southern Pacific Railroad Trains Whistle Stop |
Subjects |
Political campaigns Presidential seal Presidents Press Trains Whistle-stop campaigning |
Copyright |
Norton Pearl Photography / San Mateo County Historical Association |
Credit line |
Norton Pearl Photography / San Mateo County Historical Association |